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Mark Millar and Frank Quitely's "Jupiter's Legacy" #4 jumps ahead several years after last issue's events, juxtaposing this darker future with a much brighter origin flashback, while intriguingly analyzing superheroes in the moder

What happens after the earthling goes to a distant planet, saves the world, and then returns home? It's forty years later in "Starlight" #1 and Mark Millar and Goran Parlov's opening is surprisingly touching and welcoming.

"Revenge" #1 by Jonathan Ross and Ian Churchill is a contrived and cliché-filled story about just that: revenge, and is also full of violence, gore, sex and bad language, which would be fine if it had any kind of meaningful story.

Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma's "Morning Glories" #37 puts on the spotlight on Akiko while she is in a coma, giving readers glimpses of her childhood as well as weaving in new players and old friends and foes.

James Robinson and J. Bone's "The Saviors" #2 continues the excitement, even as we also get a lot of exposition about what's going on with the shapeshifting lizard aliens, and what Tomas's future holds.

"Five Weapons" #6 is the triumphant return of Jimmie Robinson's comic set in a school for assassins, and it's a relief to see what began as a mini-series find a strong path to continue into the future.

In "Chew" #39 by John Layman and Rob Guillory, Tony Chu remains depressed and stymied by the loss of access to his twin Toni's memories, but Amelia and Olive sneak into the FDA to steal some drugs and save the day.

The Umbral find what they're looking for, in more ways that one as Rascal and Dalone find themselves faced with exactly what they were running from in Antony Johnston and Christopher Mitten's "Umbral" #3.

"Velvet" #3 by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting has Velvet hot on the trail of the truth about X-14, after the first two issues, which introduced the circumstances that spurred her to reactivate herself as an intelligence agent.

Creators Johnnie Christmas and Ed Brisson take the series on a bit of a welcome detour in "Sheltered" #6, although it's rather slow until its importance is realized. The simplicity of the art is a perfect match for the issue's everyday

"East of West" #8 has Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta continuing to include some more focus on the villains of the series, and in doing so we get our best glimpse yet on what this alternate future is like for the average person.